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Why are front end dev demand so high if front end development is easier? (2012)
You’re starting with an invalid assumption. Front end development is absolutely not “easier” than other forms of engineering. When you’re writing server-side code, you’re writing for one language on one …
JavaScript helps a lot here because at least you can use feature detection (though that in itself is controversial due to the performance overhead)—but now you’re handling even more code branches and potential areas for bugs to creep in. Oh, and they’re on the frontline of web application security, so they need to understand CSRF, XSS, Click Jacking, DNS pinning (that was a fun one), UTF-7 character encoding attacks... And these days there’s responsive design, media queries, HTML5 AppCache, WebGL, CSS transforms, SVG, Canvas, localStorage, WebSockets and so on to worry about as well—each one introducing exciting new capabilities, and each one introducing brand new browser support challenges to figure out.
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